So I begged him to take it, and told him why I was in such a hurry.

It was silly, I dare say, but it changed his mind, for I got rather excited, and told the story in my topsy-turvy way, and his wife heard, and said so kindly, 'Take it, Thomas, and oblige the young lady.

I'd do as much for our Jimmy any day if I had a spire of hair worth selling." "Who was Jimmy ?" asked Amy, who liked to have things explained as they went along.
"Her son, she said, who was in the army.

How friendly such things make strangers feel, don't they?
She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely." "Didn't you feel dreadfully when the first cut came ?" asked Meg, with a shiver.
"I took a last look at my hair while the man got his things, and that was the end of it.

I never snivel over trifles like that.